The Cardinals sent one singles player and two doubles teams to next week’s individual regional round following their performances in the Coastal 3-A Conference tournament at River Burch Tennis Center.

Jacksonville’s Stephanie Wangerin advanced to the NCHSAA East Regional championships in singles play while the doubles teams of Morgan Redick and Kate Reeves, and Chloe Brown and Brianna Carberry also qualified.

The regionals will be played Oct. 19 at Barton College.

“It would have been awesome to have all six girls travel to the regionals, but if someone would have told me 5 of 6 girls would qualify, I would have definitely been shocked,” Jacksonville coach David Fleischer said. “It’s really unheard of.”

The conference tournament was held to determine regional qualifiers. The top four singles players and top four doubles teams advance. Once qualifiers were named, the tournament didn’t continue.

Wangerin opened with a 6-0, 6-0 win over White Oak’s Courtney Myers before defeating West Carteret’s Mallory Munden 6-0, 6-0.

As the top doubles team, the Redick/Reeves pair earned a first-round bye before defeating their opponents from South Central 6-0, 6-4. The fifth-seeded Brown/Carberry team opened with a 6-3, 6-1 win over their foes from South Central before defeating their opponents from Washington 6-3, 6-2.

White Oak’s doubles team of Tia Decker and Sarah Hambright also advanced to regionals. They didn’t play Thursday since they were the top seed and already qualified.

“I told them (players) that they were the top dogs and that they have proven all season that they were the best in the conference,” said Fleischer, who lead his team to the conference title. “We expected them to move on and they did that.”

Jacksonville will host Southern Lee in the first round of the NCHSAA 3-A dual team playoffs Tuesday at 4 p.m. Southern Lee is the second seed from the Cape Fear Valley Conference.

SOCCER

Jacksonville 6, Havelock 2: Defender Blake Heatherly recorded 3 goals and an assist to lead Jacksonville to a Coastal 3-A Conference win at Havelock.

Warren Washington and C.J. Sparks each added a goal and an assist while Tyler Moore notched a goal for the Cardinals.

Southwest 3, Lejeune 0: Hali Botzenhart had 13 points and 5 kills to lead Southwest to a sweep of Lejeune to remain tied atop the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference match heading into its regular-season finale next week.

Southwest (13-4), which plays host to Pamlico (12-5, 6-3) on Tuesday, is 8-1 in the CPC and tied with Dixon (10-6, 8-1), which travels to Lejeune (1-14, 1-8) on Tuesday.

If both teams win and finish tied for the league title, they would play Wednesday at a site, with the home team to be determined by a coin flip.

Dixon 3, East Carteret 2: Miranda Davis slammed 17 kills and Caitlin Trexel had 25 digs as Dixon outlasted East Carteret in five sets to remain tied with Southwest for first place in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference heading into the final regular-season game of the year.